The Australian Chamber Orchestra is thrilled to announce that an anonymous Australian private benefactor has acquired one of the world's rarest violins, valued at AUD$10,000,000, for the use of the ACO's Artistic Director, Richard Tognetti. The violin, created by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù in 1743 and known as the 'Carrodus', is one of the very finest in existence.

Although she has scarcely entered her teens, young violinist Caroline Goulding is already a veteran soloist-appearing with such prestigious orchestras as The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Cleveland Women's Orchestra, The Lakeside Festival Orchestra and The International Symphony Orchestra.

Internationally acclaimed violinist Vadim Gluzman will appear with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra Friday, January 19 and Saturday, January 20 at 8 pm at The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford. The program conducted by HSO Music Director Edward Cumming will feature Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, "Eroica," and Gluzman performing the Violin Concerto in D major by neo-Romantic composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Tickets for this concert are currently on sale.

CSO Music Director Christof Perick leads the Charlotte Symphony with violinist Viviane Hagner for the Charlotte Symphony's 75th Anniversary Diamond Jubilee Season Classics concerts Friday, February 2 and Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 8 PM at the Belk Theater of the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center (130 N. Tryon St., Charlotte, NC 28202).